Howdy,
I am running VB 3.8.1 (patch level 1).
When users register, they have to do the image verification, email verification, and then finally one of our admins will manually review each account. So far, that has worked pretty well to keep out spammers.
Recently, we have been getting users that are spamming via PM's even though their accounts are NOT yet active. They are still in the "Users awaiting email confirmation" usergroup. I have reviewed the settings for that usergroup to ensure that the ability to use PM's is set to zero (off). Nonetheless, we have had several spam attacks where a user in this group is able to send many PM's with spam in them. I do not understand how they are doing this or how to stop them.
I would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks.
I am running VB 3.8.1 (patch level 1).
When users register, they have to do the image verification, email verification, and then finally one of our admins will manually review each account. So far, that has worked pretty well to keep out spammers.
Recently, we have been getting users that are spamming via PM's even though their accounts are NOT yet active. They are still in the "Users awaiting email confirmation" usergroup. I have reviewed the settings for that usergroup to ensure that the ability to use PM's is set to zero (off). Nonetheless, we have had several spam attacks where a user in this group is able to send many PM's with spam in them. I do not understand how they are doing this or how to stop them.
I would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks.
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